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title: What was the sisters' scam at the inn, like? — Lang's Fairy Book, The Prince and the… · tree and pragmatics
description: What was the sisters' scam at the inn, like? Test 7 · ★ of lesson 1813 «Lang's Fairy Book, The Prince and the Doves: the prince escapes his father's trap, forgets his bride, and wins her back» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and o
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# Test 7 · ★ · Lang's Fairy Book, The Prince and the Doves: the prince es…

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What was the sisters' scam at the inn, like?

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**Mova's choice:** option 2 · **The right answer:** option 2 · right ✓ · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** scam, inn

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This is test 7 · ★ of lesson 1813 «Lang's Fairy Book, The Prince and the Doves: the prince escapes his father's trap, forgets his bride, and wins her back» of the books course of Mova's primary school. The page gives the question's syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause, then the 4 options as the student saw them, each with its tree and pragmatics. Every text is parsed by Mova itself. How the student answered it, with the score of every option and why: [the test at school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/books/1813-pg641-part64/#t7).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1813-pg641-part64:t7:1
# text = What was the sisters' scam at the inn, like?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	6	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	sisters	sister	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	'	's	PART	POS	_	4	case	_	_
6	scam	scam	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
7	at	at	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	inn	inn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
11	like	like	ADP	IN	_	6	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past |  | the sisters's scam |  | the inn |  |  | tree rules |

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One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 {#o1}

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Selling horses

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1813-pg641-part64:t7:o1:1
# text = Selling horses
1	Selling	sell	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
2	horses	horse	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sell** | gerund |  | horses |  |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent horse=Theme |

### Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Selling doves

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1813-pg641-part64:t7:o2:1
# text = Selling doves
1	Selling	sell	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
2	doves	dove	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sell** | gerund |  | doves |  |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dove=Theme |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Selling doves to travellers at the inn

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1813-pg641-part64:t7:o3:1
# text = Selling doves to travellers at the inn
1	Selling	sell	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
2	doves	dove	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	obj	_	_
3	to	to	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	travellers	traveller	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	obl	_	_
5	at	at	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	inn	inn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sell** | gerund |  | doves | travellers | the inn |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient PP.asset»: agent=Agent dove=Theme to traveller=Recipient at inn=Asset |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Stealing horses and selling them at the market

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1813-pg641-part64:t7:o4:1
# text = Stealing horses and selling them at the market
1	Stealing	steal	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
2	horses	horse	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	obj	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
4	selling	sell	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	1	conj	_	_
5	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	obj	_	_
6	at	at	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	market	market	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **steal** | gerund |  | horses |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location horse=Theme |
| 2 | **sell** | gerund |  | horses *= horse* |  | the market |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.asset»: agent=Agent they=Theme at market=Asset |

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**Text:** the tests of Mova's primary school, written for Mova (`world/data/school/`), as the course runner gave them to the student. **Trees:** Mova's own parse — the `en` model on the CPU, when the site is built — not checked by a teacher; they may be wrong. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), each text read on its own. Elamur Cosmic License.

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